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Just as a country can turn physical resources like land into physical capital like factories, similarly, it can also turn human resources like nurses, farmers, teachers, students into human capital like engineers and doctors. Societies need sufficient human capital in the first place—in the form of competent people who have themselves been educated and trained as professors and other professionals. In other words, we need good human capital to produce other human capital (say, nurses, farmers, teachers, doctors, engineers etc). This means that we need investment in human capital to produce more human capital out of human resources.

Investment in education is considered as one of the main sources of human capital. There are several other sources as well. Investments in health, on- the job training, migration and information are the other sources of human capital formation. This enhanced productivity of human beings or human capital contributes substantially not only towards increasing labour productivity but also stimulates innovations and creates ability to absorb new technologies. Education provides knowledge to understand changes in society and scientific advancements, thus, facilitate inventions and innovations. Similarly, the availability of educated labour force facilitates adaptation to new technologies.

India recognised the importance of human capital in economic growth long ago. The Seventh Five Year Plan says, "Human resources development (read human capital) has necessarily to be assigned a key role in any development strategy, particularly in a country with a large population. Trained and educated on sound lines, a large population can itself become an asset in accelerating economic growth and in ensuring social change in desired directions."

Just as a country can turn physical resources like land into physical capital like factories, similarly, it can also turn human resources like nurses, farmers, teachers, students into human capital like engineers and doctors. Societies need sufficient human capital in the first place—in the form of competent people who have themselves been educated and trained as professors and other professionals. In other words, we need good human capital to produce other human capital (say, nurses, farmers, teachers, doctors, engineers etc). This means that we need investment in human capital to produce more human capital out of human resources.

Investment in education is considered as one of the main sources of human capital. There are several other sources as well. Investments in health, on- the job training, migration and information are the other sources of human capital formation. This enhanced productivity of human beings or human capital contributes substantially not only towards increasing labour productivity but also stimulates innovations and creates ability to absorb new technologies. Education provides knowledge to understand changes in society and scientific advancements, thus, facilitate inventions and innovations. Similarly, the availability of educated labour force facilitates adaptation to new technologies.

India recognised the importance of human capital in economic growth long ago. The Seventh Five Year Plan says, "Human resources development (read human capital) has necessarily to be assigned a key role in any development strategy, particularly in a country with a large population. Trained and educated on sound lines, a large population can itself become an asset in accelerating economic growth and in ensuring social change in desired directions."

Just as a country can turn physical resources like land into physical capital like factories, similarly, it can also turn human resources like nurses, farmers, teachers, students into human capital like engineers and doctors. Societies need sufficient human capital in the first place—in the form of competent people who have themselves been educated and trained as professors and other professionals. In other words, we need good human capital to produce other human capital (say, nurses, farmers, teachers, doctors, engineers etc). This means that we need investment in human capital to produce more human capital out of human resources.

Investment in education is considered as one of the main sources of human capital. There are several other sources as well. Investments in health, on- the job training, migration and information are the other sources of human capital formation. This enhanced productivity of human beings or human capital contributes substantially not only towards increasing labour productivity but also stimulates innovations and creates ability to absorb new technologies. Education provides knowledge to understand changes in society and scientific advancements, thus, facilitate inventions and innovations. Similarly, the availability of educated labour force facilitates adaptation to new technologies.

India recognised the importance of human capital in economic growth long ago. The Seventh Five Year Plan says, "Human resources development (read human capital) has necessarily to be assigned a key role in any development strategy, particularly in a country with a large population. Trained and educated on sound lines, a large population can itself become an asset in accelerating economic growth and in ensuring social change in desired directions."

Just as a country can turn physical resources like land into physical capital like factories, similarly, it can also turn human resources like nurses, farmers, teachers, students into human capital like engineers and doctors. Societies need sufficient human capital in the first place—in the form of competent people who have themselves been educated and trained as professors and other professionals. In other words, we need good human capital to produce other human capital (say, nurses, farmers, teachers, doctors, engineers etc). This means that we need investment in human capital to produce more human capital out of human resources.

Investment in education is considered as one of the main sources of human capital. There are several other sources as well. Investments in health, on- the job training, migration and information are the other sources of human capital formation. This enhanced productivity of human beings or human capital contributes substantially not only towards increasing labour productivity but also stimulates innovations and creates ability to absorb new technologies. Education provides knowledge to understand changes in society and scientific advancements, thus, facilitate inventions and innovations. Similarly, the availability of educated labour force facilitates adaptation to new technologies.

India recognised the importance of human capital in economic growth long ago. The Seventh Five Year Plan says, "Human resources development (read human capital) has necessarily to be assigned a key role in any development strategy, particularly in a country with a large population. Trained and educated on sound lines, a large population can itself become an asset in accelerating economic growth and in ensuring social change in desired directions."

Just as a country can turn physical resources like land into physical capital like factories, similarly, it can also turn human resources like nurses, farmers, teachers, students into human capital like engineers and doctors. Societies need sufficient human capital in the first place—in the form of competent people who have themselves been educated and trained as professors and other professionals. In other words, we need good human capital to produce other human capital (say, nurses, farmers, teachers, doctors, engineers etc). This means that we need investment in human capital to produce more human capital out of human resources.

Investment in education is considered as one of the main sources of human capital. There are several other sources as well. Investments in health, on- the job training, migration and information are the other sources of human capital formation. This enhanced productivity of human beings or human capital contributes substantially not only towards increasing labour productivity but also stimulates innovations and creates ability to absorb new technologies. Education provides knowledge to understand changes in society and scientific advancements, thus, facilitate inventions and innovations. Similarly, the availability of educated labour force facilitates adaptation to new technologies.

India recognised the importance of human capital in economic growth long ago. The Seventh Five Year Plan says, "Human resources development (read human capital) has necessarily to be assigned a key role in any development strategy, particularly in a country with a large population. Trained and educated on sound lines, a large population can itself become an asset in accelerating economic growth and in ensuring social change in desired directions."

Each producer of commodities intends to sell her output to the consumers. The consumer may be an individual or an enterprise and the good or service purchased by that entity might be for final use or for use in further production. When it is used in further production, it often loses its characteristic as that specific good and is transformed through a productive process into another good. Thus a farmer producing cotton sells it to a spinning mill where it transforms into yarn; the yarn is, in turn, sold to a textile mill where, it transforms into cloth; the cloth is, in turn, transforms into an article of clothing which is then ready to be sold finally to the consumers for final use. Such an item that is meant for final use and will not pass through any more stages of production or transformations is called a final good. Final good will not undergo any further transformation at the hands of any producer. It may, however, undergo transformation during their consumption. Thus, it is not in the nature of the good but in the economic nature of its use that a good becomes a final good.

Of the total production taking place in the economy many goods may be used by other producers as material inputs. Examples are steel sheets used for making automobiles. These are intermediate goods, mostly used as raw material for production of other commodities. There are other goods that are of durable character which are used in the production process. These are tools, machines, etc. While they make production of other commodities feasible, they themselves don't get transformed in the production process. They are also final goods yet not for ultimate consumption. These are capital goods and they undergo wear and tear, and thus are repaired or replaced over time.

Each producer of commodities intends to sell her output to the consumers. The consumer may be an individual or an enterprise and the good or service purchased by that entity might be for final use or for use in further production. When it is used in further production, it often loses its characteristic as that specific good and is transformed through a productive process into another good. Thus a farmer producing cotton sells it to a spinning mill where it transforms into yarn; the yarn is, in turn, sold to a textile mill where, it transforms into cloth; the cloth is, in turn, transforms into an article of clothing which is then ready to be sold finally to the consumers for final use. Such an item that is meant for final use and will not pass through any more stages of production or transformations is called a final good. Final good will not undergo any further transformation at the hands of any producer. It may, however, undergo transformation during their consumption. Thus, it is not in the nature of the good but in the economic nature of its use that a good becomes a final good.

Of the total production taking place in the economy many goods may be used by other producers as material inputs. Examples are steel sheets used for making automobiles. These are intermediate goods, mostly used as raw material for production of other commodities. There are other goods that are of durable character which are used in the production process. These are tools, machines, etc. While they make production of other commodities feasible, they themselves don't get transformed in the production process. They are also final goods yet not for ultimate consumption. These are capital goods and they undergo wear and tear, and thus are repaired or replaced over time.

Each producer of commodities intends to sell her output to the consumers. The consumer may be an individual or an enterprise and the good or service purchased by that entity might be for final use or for use in further production. When it is used in further production, it often loses its characteristic as that specific good and is transformed through a productive process into another good. Thus a farmer producing cotton sells it to a spinning mill where it transforms into yarn; the yarn is, in turn, sold to a textile mill where, it transforms into cloth; the cloth is, in turn, transforms into an article of clothing which is then ready to be sold finally to the consumers for final use. Such an item that is meant for final use and will not pass through any more stages of production or transformations is called a final good. Final good will not undergo any further transformation at the hands of any producer. It may, however, undergo transformation during their consumption. Thus, it is not in the nature of the good but in the economic nature of its use that a good becomes a final good.

Of the total production taking place in the economy many goods may be used by other producers as material inputs. Examples are steel sheets used for making automobiles. These are intermediate goods, mostly used as raw material for production of other commodities. There are other goods that are of durable character which are used in the production process. These are tools, machines, etc. While they make production of other commodities feasible, they themselves don't get transformed in the production process. They are also final goods yet not for ultimate consumption. These are capital goods and they undergo wear and tear, and thus are repaired or replaced over time.

Each producer of commodities intends to sell her output to the consumers. The consumer may be an individual or an enterprise and the good or service purchased by that entity might be for final use or for use in further production. When it is used in further production, it often loses its characteristic as that specific good and is transformed through a productive process into another good. Thus a farmer producing cotton sells it to a spinning mill where it transforms into yarn; the yarn is, in turn, sold to a textile mill where, it transforms into cloth; the cloth is, in turn, transforms into an article of clothing which is then ready to be sold finally to the consumers for final use. Such an item that is meant for final use and will not pass through any more stages of production or transformations is called a final good. Final good will not undergo any further transformation at the hands of any producer. It may, however, undergo transformation during their consumption. Thus, it is not in the nature of the good but in the economic nature of its use that a good becomes a final good.

Of the total production taking place in the economy many goods may be used by other producers as material inputs. Examples are steel sheets used for making automobiles. These are intermediate goods, mostly used as raw material for production of other commodities. There are other goods that are of durable character which are used in the production process. These are tools, machines, etc. While they make production of other commodities feasible, they themselves don't get transformed in the production process. They are also final goods yet not for ultimate consumption. These are capital goods and they undergo wear and tear, and thus are repaired or replaced over time.

Each producer of commodities intends to sell her output to the consumers. The consumer may be an individual or an enterprise and the good or service purchased by that entity might be for final use or for use in further production. When it is used in further production, it often loses its characteristic as that specific good and is transformed through a productive process into another good. Thus a farmer producing cotton sells it to a spinning mill where it transforms into yarn; the yarn is, in turn, sold to a textile mill where, it transforms into cloth; the cloth is, in turn, transforms into an article of clothing which is then ready to be sold finally to the consumers for final use. Such an item that is meant for final use and will not pass through any more stages of production or transformations is called a final good. Final good will not undergo any further transformation at the hands of any producer. It may, however, undergo transformation during their consumption. Thus, it is not in the nature of the good but in the economic nature of its use that a good becomes a final good.

Of the total production taking place in the economy many goods may be used by other producers as material inputs. Examples are steel sheets used for making automobiles. These are intermediate goods, mostly used as raw material for production of other commodities. There are other goods that are of durable character which are used in the production process. These are tools, machines, etc. While they make production of other commodities feasible, they themselves don't get transformed in the production process. They are also final goods yet not for ultimate consumption. These are capital goods and they undergo wear and tear, and thus are repaired or replaced over time.